Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image